Property Owner or Sharecropper? Disputing Unfair Property Taxes

In Wayne County
Michigan there are 20,000 properties up for auction for non-payment of property
taxes.Thousands of families will be
booted off land they bought but could not keep up with eternal government
ransom demands.This is the same county
which because of corruption and incompetence lost more than $100 million of tax
dollars on a jail which will never be built.

The government tries its best too continually to find new
ways to raid your wallet through higher taxes, user fees, sales taxes, and
other hidden costs …our county even inserts a $145 annual fee into its property
taxes for trash removal.[Something I
don’t use, don’t want and did not order but someone’s brother-in-law is getting
paid off because we have NO CHOICE in the matter]. In either case, you never
really own your property, you are a sharecropper, an indentured servant.

Each year county
governments seize millions of homes and other properties when property taxes
are not paid.There are ways to beat the
tax man (without going to jail) including meeting with your local assessor and
filing an appeal.

Each county has different procedures to filing such appeals.Most often it begins with a visit to their
office to learn what similar properties in your area were assessed at and
obtaining the necessary forms and instructions from the assessor’s office.

I did this for my father who had been paying $5000 for a postage
stamp sized lot in Michigan [MI has some of the highest property taxes in the
nation].I discovered a senior and
military service exemption he had not taken advantage of which gave him an
immediate reduction in what he had been paying.

If you are a senior, disabled, on military duty, etc. it
will pay to see if your area offers tax relief.In many areas some counties are offering a property tax work-off program
to help reduce or even eliminate your tax bill.

Learn more by asking your local government or inquire at
a senior citizens or taxpayer assistance program…keep in mind, few governments
publicize such programs.Your AARP
membership can also help you to understand and/or cope with various tax
schemes.Call one of their volunteers at
888-227-7669 or visit their website for details.

Here’s a
site which can assist you in lowering your cable or satellite bill and even
your cell phone bill and credit card bills (I always recommend using pre-paid
plans especially if teens are involved].Visit this site and sign up for their service:

So far this summer, the drought
that has decimated most of the fertile growing areas in California as well as
11 other states and has continued to scorch what crop land that remains.

The bad news is that there is no relief in sight. Most farmers are just plain
giving up and are now refusing to plant as the losses mount up from previous
years of farming in what has turned into a desert. In Fact, it's so bad that
Tim Quinn, the executive director of the Association of California Water
Agencies said...

"There are places in California that if we
don't do something about it, tens of thousands of people could turn on their
water faucets and nothing would come out."
The result? As you might expect - Food prices going through the roof while
the average American's income stands still.

Here's the most important part of all this. To most Americans this is
just another news story. But please listen up: This is the worst
potential "food crisis our country has ever faced." Period.

Here's why:

During the last drought-induced food crisis which took place during the Dust
Bowl days, folks knew how to hunker down, live on less and grow their own food.

That's not the case today. The average American today doesn't know how to live
on less, let alone grow their own food.